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Restaurants break with old language norm – English makes an entrance tema
| Sep 2017

Restaurants break with old language norm – English makes an entrance

Sep 19, 2017 Finnish restaurateurs are worried about the lack of Finnish-speaking waiters. As a result, more and more restaurants now seek English-speaking staff. Meanwhile, trade unions sound a warning that many young people are leaving the trade because of low pay and a lack of workplace training opportunities.
Risk-based inspections on the wrong track? kommentar

Risk-based inspections on the wrong track?

Dec 05, 2017 Nordic labour inspection authorities still have some way to go to perfect their methods for identifying businesses for inspection. But critics who imply that these authorities lack the will to seek out risk, are off target.
SAK President Jarkko Eloranta: Poorer Finns cannot be a good thing for Finland interview

SAK President Jarkko Eloranta: Poorer Finns cannot be a good thing for Finland

Sep 16, 2016 Since June this year, Finland’s largest trade union SAK has been run by Jarkko Eloranta. In this portrait interview with the Nordic Labour Journal he attacks the government’s labour market politics for its aim of making Finnish labour cheaper.
Scandinavian data centres: fewer jobs and less profit than forecast tema

Scandinavian data centres: fewer jobs and less profit than forecast

Apr 28, 2023 New data centres are popping up in Norway and Sweden along with a lot of hope for many new jobs and high returns.
Security issues drive political changes in Nordics and EU nyhet

Security issues drive political changes in Nordics and EU

Sep 19, 2024 Sweden has a new minister for employment, Denmark has established a new ministry for civil security and Finland secured one of six Executive Vice Presidents in the European Commission.
Severe drop in childbirth rates across the Nordics tema

Severe drop in childbirth rates across the Nordics

Mar 25, 2024 What will happen to the Nordic labour market when birth rates in all of the five Nordic countries have fallen to record-low levels? Can existing assisted fertilisation technology help increase the number of children? Or is the drop in foreign adoptions larger?
Sexual harassment: new knowledge needed nyhet

Sexual harassment: new knowledge needed

Apr 29, 2021 Sexual harassment in the care sector has had less attention than harassment in other sectors. Patients behaving inappropriately is often seen as part of the job. “High tolerance levels represent a problem,” says Bryndis Elfa Valdemarsdottir, who has been heading the Icelandic part of a Nordic project looking at this problem.
Shadow economies - the Nordic strategies Infocus
| Sep 2015

Shadow economies - the Nordic strategies

Sep 29, 2015 Carrot or stick? The Nordic countries have different strategies for fighting the shadow economy. Finland and Sweden have used tax incentives to make it cheaper to buy declared labour. Norway and Denmark use controls as a main tool. In Norway six authorities coordinate the work, while Denmark's new government feels controls have gone too far.
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Shadow economies - the Nordic strategies

Sep 29, 2015 Carrot or stick? The Nordic countries have different strategies for fighting the shadow economy. Finland and Sweden have used tax incentives to make it cheaper to buy declared labour. Norway and Denmark use controls as a main tool. In Norway six authorities coordinate the work, while Denmark's new government feels controls have gone too far. Above: a Norwegian coordinated control at a construction site
Should employees be compensated for working from home? nyhet
| CORONA

Should employees be compensated for working from home?

Jan 22, 2021 The Norwegian government is recommending that everyone who is able to, should work from home. The working environment act must be updated, argue labour market organisations.
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